After a good start with 61 people viewing the blog on the first day, viewers fell to a smaller but still healthy 16. But the next day they fell to 7.
Today nobody has looked at all.
But I think I’ve got a plan to redress this…

One fact worth noting about the current election for speaker of the British House of Commons is the seniority of many of the Candidates.
Sir George Young is 68, Ann Widecombe 61, Richard Shephard 66, Sir James Beith 67, Sir Michael Lord 70, Sir Patrick Cormack also 70, Margaret Becket, 66, and Sir Alan Hazelhurst 72.

Do people think we need a young speaker to engage the youth in politics? John Becow is 46 and Parmjit Dhanda is 38.
Or is a lot of parliamentary experience important? Sir Alan Hazelhurst has been in parliament longer than Mr. Dhanda has been alive!

Maybe after the controversy over Michael Martin stability will be important, with a speaker who can serve for a long period of time, such as Sir Arthur Onslow who held the chair for 33 years.

Mr. Dhanda could do this and retire at 70, but would Sir Alan Hazelhurst still be a good speaker at 105?

I admit it may be a slightly wildcard suggestion but could Vice-President Cheney be planning to run in 2012?
True he did not run in 2008 but maybe this was because post 2005 he knew the Bush legacy made it impossible to win.
It ’12 Cheney will only be 71 – younger than McCain was last year. And Younger than Regan in 84. And the same age as William Henry Harrison.
And who else have the GOP got. Sarah Palin?
She may be too controversial to win the nomination but the Republican base would love her as VP again to add some glamour to a Cheney headed ticket.
I appreciate Cheney is deeply unpopular – so there’s no way he’d beat Obama-Biden – unless there was a close shave with terrorism – that say the OBiden administration only just foiled – then Cheney might shine…